World Courant
BEIRUT
Lebanon stated Sunday that it acquired worldwide assurances that an Israeli strike in response to a rocket assault within the Druze city of Majdal Shams shall be “restricted,” as will the response from Hezbollah.
Whereas Israel has blamed Hezbollah for Saturday’s assault, the Lebanese group denied accountability.
“America doesn’t assist increasing the struggle, but when Israel needs to take action, America won’t cease it and won’t halt its provide of weapons,” Lebanon’s Overseas Minister Abdullah Bou Habib stated in an interview with the Lebanese Al-Jadeed channel.
“We now have acquired assurances from the involved nations that the Israeli response shall be restricted, as will Hezbollah’s response,” added Bou Habib.
He additionally famous that Hezbollah is the one preventing within the struggle towards Israel, not the Lebanese state.
“It’s each laughable and tragic that Israel, which has dedicated massacres in Gaza, needs to defend civilians within the occupied Syrian Golan…and we condemn any aggression towards civilians wherever,” Bou Habib stated.
The Golan Heights is situated in southwestern Syria and is of nice strategic significance. Israel has occupied it for the reason that 1967 struggle and annexed it in 1981, a transfer not acknowledged by the United Nations, which considers this land a part of Syria.
After a four-hour emergency assembly, the Israeli Safety Cupboard on Sunday licensed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Protection Minister Yoav Gallant to find out the way and timing of attacking Hezbollah.
Fears have grown a few full-blown struggle between Israel and Hezbollah amid an change of cross-border assaults between the 2 sides. The escalation comes towards the backdrop of a lethal Israeli onslaught on Gaza, which has killed greater than 39,300 folks since final October, following an assault by the Palestinian resistance group Hamas.
*Writing by Rania Abu Shamala in Istanbul
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